Entertainment

Not being one to watch TV, I note with interest a new show coming based on the book “The Handmaid’s Tale”. It’s a disturbing story on several levels, the low-lights of which are:

The United States is taken over by a “Christian Theocracy” via a revolution sparked by a staged attack which kills the President and most of congress.

In “restoring order”, the constitution is suspended and women’s rights are taken away. For example, they are forbidden to read.

More disturbingly, because of sterility from pollution and sexually transmitted diseases, a class of women known as “handmaids” are used by the ruling class in ritual sexual intercourse for reproduction.